The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-04-29
Sheep shearing Festival.


festival of the Shiawassee county
Wool Growers and Sheep Breeders
Association, was held at Corunna,
Tuesday and Wednesday. Although
the weather was unfavorable on the
morning of both days, the members
we're quite generally present and most
of them had sheep on exhibition.
The show was never as good as this
year-either in number or quality,
and drew from the visitors many
words of praise. Our space is too
limited to give an extended descrip
ton of the several focks represented
and can only give compact report
of the shearing, promising in the near
future to print the table in full.
Amos Parmenter had eight head of
Merinos shorn. getting fleeces as fol-
lows: Rams, 1878 lbs 10 OF; 100,
IS lbs OF; $50, II lbs 10 OF; / &c,
III lbs IA OF; I5a, IA lbs OF. Ewes,
1903, 10 lbs a or; Ioa, IS lbs OF; OF
10 lbs S OF.
]. w. Hubbard nine head, feeces:
Rams, Rip Van Winkle Jr, 3a lbs q
or; II, "a lbs 9 or; IS, 20 lbs 10 OF;
SIG, IS lbs IL or. Ewes, 3a7, ID lbs
OF; a6o, IA lbs; 81, I6 lbs 8 OF; "a,
IS lbs IL OF; 40, IS lbs, 4 OF.
l.. w. & o. Barnes sheared seven
Merinos: Rams, Wonder, IS lbs a
OF: 1870, 20 lbs 7 OF; Index, aS lbs 8 2
OF; 1876, IA lbs. Ewes, 76, ID lbs ID
OF; 70, Ia lbs or; SO, 16 lbs OF.
l. l.. Mills, Of Bancroft, took off a
fleece of 20 lbs and 7 OF, from a fine
ram which he exhibited.
]. Dennison secured fleece Of 1
lbs and 10 OF, from five year old
ram.
Fred Merells exhibited a grade
buck and took off a 10 Id I OF fleece.
c. S. Bingham was on hand with a
good show Of Shropshires from his
flock, and made an exhibit that
caught the eye of many. His year
ling ram sheared 9 lbs 4 OF. The
ewes gave feeces as follows: No "a,
9 lbs a OF; 28, 7 lbs; 81, 8 lbs OF.
Perry Brown took fleeces from ten
Merinos. Rams, II, 81 lbs IA OF; 2,
IS lbs IS OF. Ewes, "a, II lbs a OF;
1874, ID lbs ID OF; 100, IL lbs 7 OF; s,
IS lbs 6 OF; /, 13 lbs 9 OF; 100, IS lbs
IA OF; 1876, IS lbs 8 OF. Grade eve,
ID lbs oz.
w. d. Brands exhibited a number
of Shropshires, among them an i'm
ported ram weighing a64 pounds
From two ewes he sheared feeces
weighing 6 lbs 8 I-a OF, and s lbs s
OF.
NOTES.
Robt. Gibbons, the wide awake
editor of the Michigan Farmer, was
present Tuesday.
]. Seligman, of East Saginaw, gazed
with admiration at the pens of sheep
on Tuesday.
Landlord Woodmancy, of the
Mansard House, did everything pos
sib!e to make the shearing a success,
and the association is under obliga.
tions to him for many favors.
Among those in attendance at the
sheep shearing festival, was o. w.
Persall, of Flushing, the importer
and breeder of Clydesdale horses, a
gentleman widely known throughout
the State. He has been engaged in
this business for IL years, and in that
time has handled some of the beet
horses to be found in Michigan.
Within the last year he has sold IL
registered ClydesA in Michigan, and
$50 outside of the ,EState, at prices
ranging from $1,000 to So, 900 per
head. Among the horses sold to
parties in this county are Solway
knight, to Morrice & Hinckley;
Lord OF the Tower, to H. M. Olney,
Venice; Liddesdale, to John Martin,
Venice. These horses were imported
from Scotland, and are all magnifi-
cent specimens or a grade of horses
for which there is an ever increasing
demand, and have all been prize
winners in this country and in Scot
land. That it pays to breed our
common mares to these horses is
shown by the prices realized by the
sale of their produce at weaving time.
Last fall 80 colts were sold at an
average of over $loo--none of the
number sold below that amount. A
number of our people had an oppor.
tunity to see Mr.. Martins horse at
the Exchange barn last week, and to
say that all we're pleased with him is
to put it mildly That he will prove
a successful sire is attested by his crop
Of colts dropped this spring. Mr..
Pcrsall considers tbs horse to De
one of the best bred ones he has
brought over. These three stations
are all from the same sire. For grade
Clydesdales there is sure to continue
to be good demand for work and
truck teams. In the Saginaw market
last year the average price paid was
from $500 TO 5000 per team. at fuur